Washing- machine



"(No Model.)

W. LgG. APPLEBY.

WASHING MACHINE.

No. 380,272. Patented Mar. 27. 1888. I

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PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM L. G. APPIlEBY, OF GERMANTOWN, MARYLAND.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 380,272, dated March 27, 1888. Application filed June 1-1, 1887. Serial No. 241,664; (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM L. G. APPLEBY, of Germantown, in the county of Montgomery and State of Maryland, have invented a new and useful Improvement in W'ashing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to washing machines wherein two presser-boards are employed, one of said boards being supported upon brackets attached to theinside of the box, and the other end by links and oscillated with a sweeping. motion by a crank-shaft supported in bearings upon the box.

The object of my invention is to provide improved means for supporting and adjusting one of the boards within the box; and the improvement consists in certain constructions and combinations of parts, hereinafter particularly described, and designated by the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal section, Fig. 2 is a top plan, and Figs. 3 and 4 are detail views, of my improved washing-machine.

A represents the box,which is made rectangular in form and of any desired size, and is supported by legs B of such a length as to raise the machine to a convenient height. The box A is provided with a cover, 0, hinged at c, which serves to close the box to keep the water hot and prevent it from slopping out of the box. A presser-board, D, formed of 'upright side strips, d, cross slats d, and an inclined foot-board, d connecting the lower ends of the side strips, d, is pivoted to the lower ends ofangular brackets E, and supported at the upper ends by pins 0, encircled by springs F, and secured to the strips d, and passes through lugs c in the upper ends of the angular brackets.

The angular brackets E have a horizontal plate, F, secured to the side of the box, and a downwardly-inclined member, E, to the lower end of which is pivoted the lower end of the presser-board D, as above stated. A rib, a at the lower edge of the horizontal member E fits the groove f in the plate F, anda toothed rack, 6 is formed upon the upper edge of said member E, which engages with theteeth of a gear-pinion, G, upon a shaft, G, supported in bearings g in the sides of thebox, and. provided at one end with aratchet-wheel, G", located upon the outside of the box,which is revolved by a crank-handle, G, and held in any required position by a pawl, G, secured tothe' side of the box.

' A presser-board, H, is suspended by links I, pivoted to the upper end of the said board andto the sides of the box, and by a crank, K, upon a shaft, K, supported in bearings in the sides of the box, and rotated by means of a counterbalanced crank-wheel, L, secured to the end of the said shaft. The counterbalance is placed upon the wheel opposite the handle and opposite the cranked portion K of the shaft, and serves to compensate for the weight of the presser board supported upon said crank. 4

As the presser-board H is operated by the crank-shaft and suspended by the links I, at its upper end it will describe a sweeping vibratory motion to reach downwardly toward the lower corner of the box, and, following the bottom of the same,will approach the presserboard D and pass upwardly in a parallel plane with said presser board, between the said boards, at each revolution of the crank. The

clothes are thus rolled, rubbed, and squeezed up againstthe opposing surfaces of the presserboards and allowed again to fall or drop back into the water by the retrograde movement of the vibrating presser-board, and the action continued until they are thoroughly cleansed. The spring-connection at the upper end of the presser-board D will permit said board to yield to adjust itself to. the clothes pressed against it, and thus avoid tearing or injuring them. By placing the springs F at the upper end instead of at the lower end of the presserboard the said board will be held up to its work at the lower end. The yielding movement will be greater at the upper end, to which w ll with the box, of the vibratory presser-board H, a presserboard, D, angular brackets E, pivoted at its lower ends to the lower end of the presser-board D, and spring F and pin 6, interposed between the upper end of said resser-board and the upper end of the bracket, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the box and vibratory presser -board, of opposing presserboard supported upon brackets E, held in guide-plates F, and provided with a toothed rack, and a gear-pinion for adjusting said brackets and presser board, substantially as described.

3. In a washing-machine, the combination, with the tub or clothes-receptacle, of the \VILLIAM L. G. APPLEBY.

Witnesses:

WM. lVIATTHEWS, T. N. HENDERSON. 

